Anatomy of a Female Doctor

Anatomia de Uma Médica, written by doctor Sofia Serrano, is a striking journey into the private world of a gynaecologist-obstetrician and her daily challenges in clinics and hospitals. With keen sensitivity and a witty sense of humour, the author guides us through dramatic, life-and-death cases, as well as difficult, impossible, or even unknown pregnancies; but also through comical episodes involving lost and found objects... and doubts that perhaps few expected still existed regarding sexuality and knowledge of the body.

Always with the current state of medicine as a backdrop, Sofia Serrano explains delays in consultations, episodes of exhaustion and hope, the struggles between the NHS and private healthcare, the pursuit of perfect births, the strange importance of the stars, the expectations of older siblings, obstetric violence and disrespect, the dangers of information obtained from Dr. Google, and much, much more, in a valuable work within the Portuguese medical community.